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MIT Researcher's Machine Learning Study Can Save Seaweed
Seaweed is very popular in East Asian cuisines, and it has enormous promise as a long-term food supply for the world's rising population. Seaweed, in addition to its nutritional value, protects the environment from a variety of hazards. It aids in the battle against climate change by absorbing extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and fertilizer run-off, keeping coasts clean. Seaweed, like so many other marine species, is endangered by the exact thing it serves to mitigate: climate change. Due to unregulated bacterial proliferation, entire seaweed farms are destroyed in days.
Seaweed: The food and fuel of the future?
Sunshine has given way to wind and rain, as the motorboat chugs through a fjord in the Faroe Islands. "Its a bit windy here," says Olavur Gregarsen. "We'll see how far we can get to the harvesting boat." We soon reach a sheltered spot where steep mountains are looking down on hundreds of buoys bobbing in the sea. "They are holding up a horizontal line," explains Mr Gregarsen, the managing director of Ocean Rainforest, a seaweed producer.